Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Communities provides the ability to quickly create an on-premise community site that has improved performance, improved site management, and encourages the conversion of site visitors to valuable community members.

Contact your account representative for information regarding licensing of AEM Communities as well as additional licensing for enablement features and Adobe Analytics.

Communities Features

AEM Communities enables the development of a relationship with site visitors that informs through blogs, Q&A, and event calendars, while gaining insights through forums, comments, and other community content, often referred to as user generated content (UGC).

Further, AEM Communities allows moderation by trusted members in the publish environment, social login with Twitter and Facebook, inline translation of community content, creation of community groups from the published community site, scoring to award badges, file sharing, notifications and activity streams.

Communities features can be demonstrated using the AEM Demo Machine available publicly on GitHub.com or with the new We.Retail reference implementation.

Community Sites

A community site is an AEM Site created using a simple wizard that results in a website with many common features pre-wired into the site.

Community Content Persistence

To improve the performance and synchronization of community content, AEM Communities requires a common store specifically for user generated content (UGC) shared between all AEM (author and publish) instances.

Community content is easily accessed through the storage resource provider (SRP), which provides a layer to separate access from the underlying topology and supports a common store for UGC.

To learn more about community content persistence and recommended deployments visit :

a sample site, Community Components, that provides a sample of all Communities components with their default configuration and the ability to experiment with them

Community Site Templates

Community site creation is based on selection of a community site template to quickly setup a community site that is independent of any sample site.

A community site template, composed of community functions and community group templates, provides the structure for a community site including login, user profiles, messaging, site menu, search, theming, and branding features.

Community Groups and Group Templates

The community groups feature is the ability for a sub-community to be dynamically created within a community site by authorized users and community members from both the author and publish environments .

From the author environment, community groups (sub-communities) may be created within an existing community site or nested within an existing group, when the structure of the template contains the Groups function.

Creating a community group requires the selection of a community group template that provides the design of the community group page(s). When a Groups function is added to a template structure, it is configured to either specify one group template or to provide a choice of templates at the time a new community group is created.

AEM Communities Documentation

Visit Administering Communities Sites to learn about creating a community site, adding community groups, configuring community site templates, moderating community content, managing members, tagging, notifications, scoring, and badges.

Visit Developing Communities to learn about the social component framework (SCF) and customizing Communities components and features.